> > > Hmm.. let me guess.. www.freebsd.org? > > > > Use a mirror, please. > > Do they have a mirror linked to the main site? Not been there yet, as > I've not cranked up the windows box (the one with the cd burner, > naturally)
Well if you're going to browse FTP for it, try ftp://ftp2.uk.freebsd.org There is a large list on their site, but that would be "our" mirror in this country :) > > I have plenty of hardware lying around capable of doing development on, > > at least two of them could be classed as suitable development systems > > for Voyager. Neither of them work too well right now though, which is > > why I'm not personally doing anything. > > Unfortunate fact of life, things break. Real life is always > interrupting stuff. As do, video games, books, movies, and the > opposite sex ;-) Ah, Mario Sunshine does get addictive at times. > One must put food on the table. I would love to say "get to work!" > But hey, everyone has to cover their bills, eat, have vehicles, and > housing too. I'll not pester you about V for another month or two, > promise :-) :) As soon as I can I'll try and build something or get someone to build something. > Interesting. Well, I seem to remember something about the Amiga's > disk access being really horrible... I snatched the 6G hdd out of my > dead A4000, and put it in the Amithlon box. I got this drive and one > exactly like it a couple of years ago, and it is definately faster on > Amithlon/Linux than on either Amigas. There are issues that *must* be > addressed on the Amiga, and that is all there is to it. Whether it's > OS4 or MorphOS, the disk access system has to be evaluated and fixed. You can't improve onboard IDE, at all. It's PIO0 which is the best equivalent of 1MB/s at the best of times - but you'd be lucky to get around the huge CPU time issues to get more than 600k/s on a good day. The SCSI implementations on an Amiga A1200 would max out at 20MB/s if they hit their theoretical limit, my 4GB IBM is specced at 12MB/s burst and 9MB/s sustained but only managed 4-5MB/s because of the slow 060 CPU (even DMA SCSI has to wait for it's buffers to be checked..) This makes a *LOT* of difference to GCC anyway. But the real thing is that disk access is slow and ixemul makes it worse. If you could compile all inside the RAM disk then you'd probably have no speed troubles at all besides filesystem overhead (that said, the Ram Disk OFS isn't the fastest..) I never got a chance to put my disk through it's paces on MorphOS because it never ran ever again after I restructured my system. The IDE seems to have stopped working. It' not a happy machine :P > > Nonetheless, it took 12 minutes on my FreeBSD box. Who cares > > about compilers on Amigas? :) > > I'de like to set up something like that on my Linux install, but I'm > still rather clumsy with linux still. Well Blom's stuff works fine if you can unpack it. -- Matt Sealey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
